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SErankGodde
5 years ago
(edited 5 years ago)
Inspired by this post, Categories of Action in Strategy Gaming, I decided I should try to blog about RTS and Zero-K.

Suggest a topic about Zero-K or RTS in general and I write about it.
Highest upvoted post gets a blog entry about it. The topic can be small or broad but preferably small.
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MXrankmoleculeman88
5 years ago
make it we will all go to your blog buddy.
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USrankOflameo
5 years ago
When do you use attack move rather than move SErankGodde?
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iddqd
5 years ago
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NLrankWesley
5 years ago
Blog about jumpjet-k
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FIrankVermind
5 years ago
Possible topic: how to expand when under attack / how to turn getting raided into expansion
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PLrankZenfur
5 years ago
A topic about dealing with matchmaker anxiety?
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GBrankDregs
5 years ago
What is MM / ladder anxiety that I keep hearing about? Are people here to play or to worry about playing?
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USrankStStephenHawking
5 years ago
godde.exe: "matchmaker anxiety" not found.


One future and broad topic could be opponent reads. Does the opponents screenname sometimes elicit different strategy?
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ILrankhokomoko
5 years ago
quote:
What is MM / ladder anxiety that I keep hearing about? Are people here to play or to worry about playing?

MM Anxiety: An Introduction

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MXrankmoleculeman88
5 years ago
so true ;-; so true we need more like this
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NOrankAdminKingstad
5 years ago
I like that their rank is tied to their hats
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AUrankAdminGoogleFrog
5 years ago
Perhaps some sort of analysis of Istrolid. What it does or doesn't do well.

Or you could have the TA-tribe (and sometimes C&C) fight the rest of RTS with one of these topics:
  • Infinite vs. finite resources
  • Flow vs. discrete spending
  • Moving and shooting vs. moving or shooting
  • Physics vs. heat seeking bullets and no inertia
  • Dispersed resources vs. well defined expansions
  • Tech levels vs. global upgrades
  • Energy vs. houses as forms of position-independent capacity limits
Ideally the blog would be less of a fight and more of an analysis of an area of games, and the various approaches.
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USrankPaulBellow
5 years ago
Love this. Can't wait to see what you do first. I'll help spread on social media.

"MM Anxiety: An Introduction" sounds like a fun one. After watching casts of some high-ranked players, I've noticed that the ones who win a lot are calm, cool, and collected while playing. It's easy to get swept up in the excitement of the game - at least the first few thousand times you play?

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SErankGodde
5 years ago
Here is my first blog.
Medium.com

It could be more polished with pictures and stuff, but man I've already spent like 6 hours on this. Writing is hard.
One could only get better with practice I suppose.

FIrankVermind and others, feel free to tell me if you think I missed the mark and you want me to develop something further.
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CArankAdminShadowfury333
5 years ago
(edited 5 years ago)
That's a good start. I liked that it went into detail about several common situations, as well as presenting a low-micro solution as a way to help people who are starting out. The only thing I found was missing was a sense that the question of the post: "How to expand while being raided" wasn't really addressed. As a list of situations surrounding raiding, it worked, I just felt like the apparent goal of the post was unaddressed.

Do you have a twitter account you've posted this on that I can retweet, or are you alright if I just link it from mine?
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SErankGodde
5 years ago
I don't use Twitter. Feel free to tweet away.
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PTrankraaar
5 years ago
(edited 5 years ago)
Some suggestions:
Paragraph headers could use different formatting, maybe bold / bigger font and having bullets.

Mix in pretty screenshots with the text, possibly animated gifs.
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USrankPaulBellow
5 years ago
(edited 5 years ago)
Needs some art and some formatting, but the core content is great! Shared it on social for you (Which is when I noticed the lack of a groovy, action-packed Zero-K image!) Good stuff, though.

And, no, writing is not easy! Heh. ;)

ETA: Even adding Hokomoko's silly GIF would be good.
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FIrankVermind
5 years ago
(edited 5 years ago)
I think the content might be closer to a main title like "How to Raid and Why You Always Should".
I think the article is pretty good. Converting existing first-utterance-of-paragraph things to proper more visible subsection titles would make this better. Some could be added, for example put a subsection title here:

Raiding while being raided

Just In Time defences. If you are scouting properly and have frontline radars up, it will in most situations give a builder on high priority enough time to build a Lotus turret before the enemy arrives. In combination with a few mobile units of your own, this is one of the most lean and adaptive ways to counter heavy raiding while still expanding.

and then Conclusion before the last bit.
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